
Sensex slumps by 573.38 points
Mumbai, Jun 13 (UNI) Continuing its downward streak for the second Straight session, BSE Sensex on Friday fell further by 573.38 to settle at 81,118.60, mirroring weak cues from global peers and foreign institutional outflows, amid geopolitical concerns in the Middle East and a sharp spike in Brent crude oil prices.
National Stock Exchange (NSE) too fell by 169.60 points to settle at 24,732.15
The Sensex opened at 80,427.81 against its previous close of 81,691.88 and plunged to an intraday low of 80,354.59, It recorded the day's high of 81,238.68.
The NSE registered a day's high at 25,196.20 and a day's low at 24,825.90.
Mid-cap declined by 0.32 pc and the Small-cap fell by 0.30 pc.
The market breadth was Negative. On the BSE, 1,548 shares rose and 2,436 shares fell. A total of 136 shares were unchanged.
On Sectoral front barring Health care and Realty which were up by 0.08 pc and 0.13 pc respectively, all other sectoral ended the session on weak note with Bank being the top sectoral loser down by 1.01 pc other loser were Energy by 0.63 pc, FMCG by 0.94 pc, Financial by 0.85, Industrial by 0.05 pc, IT by 0.09 pc, Telecom by 0.67 pc, utilities by 0.91 pc, Auto by 0.33 pc, capital goods by 0.01 pc, Consumer Durables by 0.49 pc, Metals by 0.81 pc, Oil & Gas by 0.57 pc Power by 0.75 pc and
Teck by 0.08 pc
In 30 scripts, 4 advanced while 26 declined.
Notable loser were Adani ports by 2.61 pc to Rs 1,406.70, ITC by 1.67 pc to Rs 413.90, Indus bank by 1.52 pc to Rs 817.15, SBIN by 1.49 pc to Rs 793.65, HDFC bank by 1.15 pc to Rs 1,919.60, and Titan by 0/95 pc to Rs 3,418.65.
Gainers were Tech Mahindra by 1.02 pc to Rs 1,660.50, TCS by 3,446.25. Sun Pharma by 0.23 pc to Rs 1,690.85 and Maruti by 0.16 pc to Rs 12,401.55
Dow Futures plunged over 600 points on the rising tension. Adding to that, the early cues from Asia are not encouraging at all. Most markets are trading in the red.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 slumped 1.28 pc while the Topix lost 1.22 pc. South Korea's Kospi was down nearly 1 pc, and the small-cap Kosdaq declined 1.82 pc .,
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